Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for the 13th Asia-Europe Meeting. Kay Nietfeld/dpa Myanmar's military ...

Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to more than 6,100 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences to mark the 78th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain BANGKOK ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The political party backed by Myanmar ’s ruling military claimed Tuesday it won a commanding lead in the initial round of the first general election in five years, even though the state ...

Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Voters went to the polls Sunday for the initial phase of Myanmar’s first general election in five years, held under the supervision of its military government while a civil war ...

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LASHIO, Myanmar—Myanmar’s military-run elections are being pilloried abroad and shunned at home, but neighbouring China has emerged as an enthusiastic backer of the poll. International monitors have ...

The ethnic Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and its powerful KIA armed wing have rejected the junta’s push to revive the long‑suspended Myitsone hydropower project, saying any restart of the ...